Improve listening and speaking Model and scaffold

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How do you support your ESL learner's speaking and listening skills with a wiki?
Here is one example lesson using the ESL Teaching/ Learning Cycle (Hammond '92) to get you thinking:

Build Field:
Look at this picture. What do you see? Where is it? How would you get there? Why might you visit the city?
Think about when you went to the city. Who did you go with and why did you go? What did you see and do there?

Sydney.JPG

Model:
  1. Listen to this recount about a trip to Sydney Listen for who, where, when and why? What did they do and see?
  2. Listen again. Do you notice how the speaker uses the correct pronunciation, stress and intonation? (translation here)
  3. This time pause the audio file at words or phrases you like, and practise (copy) saying them using the correct pronunciation, stress and intonation.


Scaffold
  1. Read a typescript of the recount here.
    RECOUNT model excursion from IEP CF PDF.pdf
  2. Notice the structure of a recount: orientation, series of events and re-orientation/personal comment.
  3. Listen again. Think about structure and how to read a recount using correct pronunciation, stress and intonation to add interest for the listener.

Supported Speaking
  1. Open Audacity and record yourself reading the recount.
  2. Listen and think about your pronunciation, stress and intonation. (translation here)

Language Deconstruction

  1. Open this Document and identify the different language features of the personal recount to Sydney. RECOUNT model excursion from IEP CF with annotations .docx Save your work!.

Guided Construction
  1. Go to the discussion forum and share something you remember about our day at Taronga Zoo.
  2. Use the discussion forum; the picture below (or watch our Flip video of the day on the VIDEOS page) to give an oral recount with Audacity about our trip to Taronga Zoo. Focus on your pronunciation, stress and intonation.
Taronga_for_collage_AutoCollage_12_Images.jpg

  1. Use this scaffold if you need prompts. You could type the main points as a guide for your speaking.
  2. WRITING SCAFFOLD RECOUNT LEVEL 2.doc
  3. Upload your recount to the wiki here;





Peer Assessment/ feedback

  1. Listen to your classmates' oral recounts. Give some positive feedback and suggestions for improvement through the wiki forum. Try to give WARM "This is a great recount. You use a lot of noun groups and it is interesting to read" and COOL feedback: "Perhaps you could join some clauses together with conjunctions like but, and or because."


Independent Construction

  1. Pair work: Share an oral recount about another excursion you have been on.
  2. You will tell the class where YOUR PARTNER went on their excursion so listen carefully for details.

Extension / Homework
  1. To do a fun recount activity, go to Tale4Students and copy/paste this code into OPEN (on the right): X09Z6
    The unit is called Out and About City Excursion English.
  2. To improve your pronunciation of all the English sounds, go to this excellent website
  3. Learn more about the tenses you should use for recounts:
Past simple tense

Past Continuous tense

Present Perfect Quiz

Passive tense